Sometimes when you receive a drawing, the contents can often be far from what you need, but you have no choice but to make the best of it.  Such is case when (one instance) Civil3D users have moved labels away from the point, exported to AutoCAD then exploded the resulting anonymous blocks.

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The list of file formats that CAD users need to deal with never seems to stop growing.  For a long time the ESRI Shapefile was pretty much the exclusive format from ESRI users but it was always an export from the GIS.  Now users find themselves receiving folders of content with the folder having a .GDB (GeoDatabase) extension.

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In mapping environments, the problem occurs when you receive a drawing that has not been properly assigned a coordinate system.  Without a proper system assigned it’s nearly impossible to merge data from other systems or view the project in tools like Google Earth.  A glance at the coordinates indicate large numbers that should reflect a known system, not random coordinates.

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